Grrl Power #834 – We don’t need another hero… dressed like a stripper
Dabbler’s tantric sense is one of those abilities that probably doesn’t hold up to logical scrutiny. It would make sense if a succubus could detect actual arousal since they feed off the energy produced by such events. But, her ability to detect “situations that would be titillating if a third party was observing” is purely rule of funny. Of course, it would probably be going off all the time considering some people’s kinks. People getting dressed, undressed, bathing, shaving, packing a crazy amount of stuff into luggage with a devious, tetris-like efficiency, alphabetizing their DVD’s and Blu-Ray’s. There are websites that just have videos of people crying while they eat. I have to assume that’s a fetish of some sort.
Sure, it probably helps if the people doing those things are themselves sexy, but in the Archon building, that’s like one out of every six people, if you include all the non-super staff. Dabbler would be getting pulled in 9 directions at once. Basically she’s just skipping around in a happy daze most of the time.
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I think Kenya in panel 3 is my favorite rendering of her to date. She looks pleased, slightly amused, calm and attractive wearing “plain” clothes.
Oh, I agree! I’d love to have a plain copy of that panel to use for an avatar/P&P Character/whatever.
Yea, a good result all round.
I think Kenya in panel 5 is the basis for a one-off art, perhaps even a vote incentive.
Because N’yaaa !!
Who doesn’t want to see her dressed up as a kawaii catgirl, all 6’8″ of her, winking, playfully pawing at the air, nekomimi twitching, with raised tail wriggling and curled behind her shoulder?
Yeah. I didn’t think so. Xuriel’s porn alert sensors are overloading as I type.
Anvil in a White Tiger Stripe two piece!
reminiscent of a few of Sydney’s poses, actually. almost copy paste…
I don’t think even Max believes that, I think she just said whatever to get Dabbler to go away.
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That thing looks like it came out of CoC!
That’s basically just Secret Hitler with a new skin. (You can interpret THAT however you wish.) I was hoping for Lovecraftian Lingerie!
Be honest Dave. The whole point of that outfit was to get one of us to say “Mad Maxima: Beyond Thunderdome” wasn’t it?
+1
Winning.
Max: Listen on! Listen on! This is the truth of it. Fighting leads to killing, and killing gets to warring, and that was damn near the death of us all. Look at us now, busted up and everyone talking about hard rain! But we’ve learned! By the dust of ’em all, Bartertown’s learned. Now, when men get to fighting, it happens here, and it finishes here! Two men enter, one man leaves.
And now, I’ve got two men — two men with a gut full of fear. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, dying time’s here!
I’ve had this speech stuck in my head since this morning.
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Or what I sang to my Jack Russell often in our last few months together:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tPcc1ftj8E&ab_channel=TerryJacksVEVO
Max: “I mean, Two PEOPLE enter, one PERSON leaves”
Two Toons enter, one Toon leaves.
“Make Kenya mew like a Japanese cat”
I’d love to make her purr!
One wonders why Maxima even put on the Thunderdome Costume….
Also, aside from her Arm seeming a bit too … edgy? You caught her feeling comfortable in the Jacket Outfit very well.
She was having fun with one of her few friends.
I’m pretty sure Dabbler dressed Max in that, as indicated by the “super speed outfit change” and Max’s reaction.
Now I really, really want to see someone wear the tentacle armor.
Dabbles doesn’t have super speed
Maxi put it on, because it was in the pile of the clothes Anvil set out for her, hence why she asked Anvil why she selected that outfit
I just accidentally hit the First comic button, and wow has your artwork gotten an upgrade over time…
If I did not know who the character was supposed to be I would have thought that the Anvil on this page and the Anvil on Page 4 was an entirely different Character, same For Maxima.
Good work there!
whatever that Thing Dabbler just asked Max to try on, it is the most Frighting thing I have ever seen.
Yeah. “It’s self-adhering!” is not something you want to hear about some writhing horror show you’re intended to place up against your tender bits.
Speak for yourself… now where is that thing on sale at?
Depends. How does it get removed? If a simple “spray and wipe” makes it fall away, that’s awesome.
There’s a fetish for that. The tentacle provide “entertainment”. Constantly. Which cannot be escaped.
Pretty sure those tentacly bits around the edges are in motion…
That’s what I was afraid of, if I’ve learned anything from physics its that a tentacle in motion stays in motion. Or, something like that, or was that Cthulhu mythos?
Maxi would probably keep the matching leggings for the Wez-outfit
Maybe even the cross-belt
It’s probably higher than that. Military people are almost always very fit, and unless a person is really particularly unattractive that tends to make military people fairly attractive as a norm.
Civilian security guards, if they even used them for some reason instead of military personnel, well that can vary depending on the agency and the mission. But if Archon hires civilian security they aren’t going the be the “just a warm body in a uniform to dissuade your average trouble maker and meant to call the cops if there is trouble” types. So again, very fit and therefore above norm in attractiveness.
Other civilian types, such as the contractors working the kitchens, janitorial staff, etc. (I’m a long time away from my time in, but I worked as a contractor to government/military agencies for decades, and I think KP duty is almost a thing of the past, in non-combat areas and even in some fairly ‘hot’ areas soldiers don’t typically run the mess), there you’ll be back to the norm for the population.
People often forget Dabbler has a cyber eye. This whole thing is being recorded for posterity. Hi-jinks will ensue.
Now I want some kind post-apocalyptic arena fighter game where Max is the MC as well as the secret final super-boss battle.
I think it works by degrees of potential, and minimal effort required to cash in, so it’s more like a gradient instead of an overloaded heat map.
Loving Dabbler’s expressions in her first two panels.
Reminds me of her expression just before Max put her through a wall. Do it again, Max!
Heh.
Thanks for reminding me of that. Probably my favourite page of this comic.
I’d say both those outfits would be appropriate if Max were ever to be dragged to a Con by Sydney. In fact, I’m pretty sure I have seen All of those outfits, including the Elder-bra, at various conventions.
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Looks like a Xena-corset
Dabbler caught Anvil’s thoughts of: yeah Max looks ‘hot’ enough in that…
I think this is an apt moment to mention that there are few things as theraputic as stroking a pussy.
It’s the only way I can get them to stay handy if I need a *a*-grenade.
Can I call it a **ss*-grenade? Or is that a **ss*-bomb?
Is that you Mr. President?
I can imagine tantric sense working in a logical, non-magical way.
You know that Sexy_Person_Y is trying on clothes because Anvil is Anvil, and the news did the thing with the Sea of Octupleness. Wait a couple minutes, then burst in. Half-naked Sexy.
Know that a mathelete is a pervert, so whatever they’re engaged in is probably sexy. Just peek whenever and you’re probably right.
See someone heading to the showers, wait 5 minutes, then go in.
Someone hasn’t had a date for a year, been busy with work and other stuff for months, and then has some unobserved alone time. Good time for a stealth camera.
And now I envy Dabbler.
Headcanon:
It’s not that Dabbler sinced a clothing change montage, it’s that Maxima is way more turned on by the ‘date’ (and Anvil of the thought of Maxima finally going on a date) than either are letting on.
This. This occurred to me also, else (despite the facial expression) why did Maxima a) put the fetishwear on and b) show it off to Anvil. She could have unfolded it, said “I don’t think so!” and tossed it over the screen.
So, when are we going to address the fact that maxima has been switched out for a bad copy?
I mean its all there, the golden skin, the violet hair, the mega trained body…. .but it is not Maximas Face?
It’s not Anvil’s face either
Do you also whine when he renders them as chibis? It’s a web comic, no a portrait studio. The rendition of the face is supposed to convey emotions and attitudes. They did that.
I’m very sorry if I offended. I just miss the other Max.
I’m still waiting for someone to remind Maxima that she’s an officer in Arc-SWAT, a military organization, and thus should have access to some type of dress-uniform.
This is still playtime. Maxi has plenty of… Oh dear Deity is that the time?
Honestly, I have never understood the feminist outrage against stripperific superheroine costumes. The trope makes a lot of practical sense besides fanservice. Just as eloquently lampshaded in this setting, superhumans usually have ideal bodies. Much more often then not, their powers give them better inherent offensive and defensive abilities than conventional weapons and armor could ever provide, and they tend to move around a lot in the field. This makes form-fitting or skimpy clothing optimal, the opposite worse than useless, and mundane protective gear just a burden.
Non-prude/shy people usually enjoy showing off their good assets and looking/feeling sexy, and this is even more true for persons that feel a calling to jobs that involve being at the center of attention, such as professional fighters and vigilantes. Superheroines are the least vulnerable women in the world to sexual harassment or assault (at least outside of fetish erotica). If there is someone most justified to embrace the ‘if you have got it, flaunt it’ line of thought, it is superhumans.
Max is an obvious exception because her post-origin body issues made her the prude kind of strident feminist. Sydney is another one because we have seen what kind of kaiju-sized insecurity issues she got from being a normal woman in a team of sexy goddesses. But there are good reasons (besides Arc-SWAT necessarily being a Mildly Military organization with a lax dress code) why their cheesecake/beefcake peers naturally embrace the stripperific/skintight/shirtless aesthetic whenever they can.
The reason for the outrage is simple. You know that guy down at the gym, the one with those big muscles? Don’t you just hate him? All buff and good looking, and acting like he’s SOOO superior just because he’s in better shape?
After all, it’s not as though he got that way through years of training, spending a half hour of each day lifting weights or doing calisthenics or doing cardio, instead of vegging out in front of the TV. He didn’t make a point of maintaining his physique in order to look that good, right? He didn’t make an EFFORT to look that good, right?
THAT’S why pseudo-feminists hate “stripperific” outfits. It’s the “crabs in a bucket” effect.
(also, if you’re NOT that guy down at the gym… why aren’t you? Even if you’re observing the quarantine, you ought to have enough floor space to do pushups and squats. The “Saitama workout” is actually pretty easy if you aren’t doing the 10k runs, and even the pushups/situps/squats without the running is still a lot better than nothing)
In other words, envy, spite, and an authoritarian need to control other people’s lives and force them to submit to your ideology. Pretty much the same true reasons why so many wokes condemn and oppose pornography, sex work, glamorous clothing, and having a fit and attractive body, no matter how much the people they harass scream to the top of their lungs it’s their choice, they find their circumstances satisfactory or at least better than the alternatives, they like sex and being sexy, and being fit feels good and is objectively good if you care to live long and stay healthy.
Although she thankfully does not share that kind of attitude, you can practically taste Sydney’s envy and frustration when she berates her teammates’ immodesty. We have yet to see if and how much getting a hot space boyfriend caused her attitude to evolve to something more liberated, but if it goes the same way she quickly came to embrace the notion of polyamory, things look promising. As for Max, no matter how much her judgemental attitude makes her unsympathetic, it does not seem her sexual repression is making her happy, and Hiro/Deus/Dabbler at last getting in her pants would in all likelihood do her a lot of good.
But honestly, hostility to the typical superhero/heroine dress style makes even less sense than the rest of woke ideology. Skintight/skimpy clothing just seems optimal and natural for people who have ideal bodies, get into brawls and do acrobatics all the time, pack the equivalent of heavy weaponry/WMD and powered armor in their bodies with no use whatsoever for mundane weapons and protective gear (except perhaps for quick and easy intimidation as Max showed), and are very likely to be show-offs with healthy libidos.
Pretentious ramblings using others as props must be your thing.
Just stop.
Nah, not really. You hardly ever see male superheroes in stripperific outfits. That’s the main objection of the feminists I know who have thought about the subject. If things are going to be objectified it needs to be equal opportunity, which Dave is pretty good at doing.
Ah, yes, of course, if you’re not an exhibitionist into lots of casual sex, you’re “obviously” a “repressed prude”. If they don’t want to flaunt their bodies and attract as much attention as possible, that must be some sort of hangup or problem on their part.
Always ironic to see people engage in the same sorts of absolutism, judgementalism, and peddling of false dichotomies that they accuse others of engaging in.
Rant about “choice”, and then belittle anyone who doesn’t make the choices you’d make for supposedly having psychological issues they need to work on. It’s like listening to someone rant about “fat shaming” in one sentence, and then make snide comments about some “skinny bitch” in the next, as if body shaming only goes one way.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but not everyone is into running around half-naked and being stared out, regardless of how awesome their body is, and there’s nothing wrong with their feeling or choices — are you really incapable of imagining that someone wouldn’t make the same choice you would unless they had problems in their head?
Not everyone, no. Exceptions always exist. However, I tend to assume most persons that would feel a calling to the superheroic lifestyle if superpowers existed usually don’t have real issues with being stared at and attracting a lot of attention (leaving aside the case of stealth-based characters for simplicity), and quite likely lean to the opposite. More or less for the same reasons why we don’t tend to find many shy people among actors, entertainers, celebrities, and professional athletes.
Moreover, there are good practical reasons why martial artists, gymnasts, and professional athlets (the closest equivalent to superheroes in this context; cops and soldiers simply aren’t adequate analogues, since for most superhumans mundane weapons and protective gear are useless and a burden) normally find form-fitting or scant clothing optimal. And again, most people that embrace those jobs typically don’t have a problem using that kind of outfit all the time.
This does not necessarily need to cross over into the subject having a positive opinion of the sexualized aspects of the situation. However, there are psychological reasons why this may be often be the case to some degree for people with fit and attractive bodies that use them extensively in their line of work, if the example of actors and athletes is any guide. Again, exceptions may exist. The argument is about what would be the most frequent case that tends to create a standard, and why there are good Watsonian reasons because Max is an exception in the superpowered population, and why the typical superhero/heroine outfit makes practical and psychological sense in this setting and the rest of the genre, regardless of any Doylist fanservice, coolness, and being relatively easy to draw.
As it concerns Max and people with her kind of attitude, I do have my own deep-seated reasons for radical dislike and distrust of that stance and ideology, that go much beyond the specific issue of supers’ outfits. About her specifically, I make no mystery of the fact I find her quite unsympathetic and unsufferable when she goes proactively judgemental and trolling all the time at the drop of an hat on people that do not share her values, even if I find her admirable for her dedication to her calling, and likable for being a big sister figure to Sydney. As far as I can tell, it honestly seems to me the least nice parts of her personality have some root in unsolved issues about her superhuman body image and transformation, but YMMV.
“Non-prude/shy people usually enjoy showing off their good assets and looking/feeling sexy”
I take it you have done a scientific survey of the views of “non-prude/shy people”? That’s important, as it seems to be the basis of the views you state.
In my experience (without doing a survey}, most people do not spend their time showing off. The only people who do it are people who lack confidence in themselves – essentiallly people with an inferiority complex.
Remember that people are attracted to many different things, including personality. A person who knows they are attractive doesn’t need to advertise. A person who is good-looking, but has a shallow personality, will only attract other shallow personalities. They are boring, and only amuse each other.
It has little to do with shyness or prudishness.
Dabbler’s here to feed on our thirsty stares…
I see this page and wonder what would happen if a villian with a teleportation hole used it to deploy camera like devices to take a picture of a lot of Archon, and the pictures can be later used to make short lived clones. But because of Dabbler based shenanigans, some of the photos warp and create evil clones…
Like a Silver Skinned Maxima with Blue Hair and naturally purple lips, a Spanish Model like version of Hiro called Vilan, and Hammer a more compact and lithe Anvil who is white, near albino, and has hair that is pretty much the opposite of Anvil’s long luxurious mane…
It would be interesting with them mostly having the same powers, yet some differences. Like Hammer generates force that she stores to release later, Vilan is more invulnerable than Hiro with a little less strength, and Maxima’s clone/doppelganger has her powers… Its just that the colors are swapped, that and they can instantly counter each other, and by that I mean Max can dump into strength to hit her clone and instinctively her clone would dump into invulnerability and vice versa.
In other words Max vs Clone, and Anvil vs Hammer would be automatic draws…
Sorry, that is just me going off on a tangent
*surfing off on a sine wave*
Sometimes the internet just plain fails to provide a suitable image.
fashion montages are almost always sexy, and what with the 3rd date bag kicked around the corner, Anvil was thinking sexy thoughts, even if they weren’t about stuff she would be directly involved in
I just figured he has tracking spells on max for things like this
She not he
Dabbles isn’t that stupid
If any tracking spells were traced back to her, she would be kicked off the planet, literally without aid of a spaceship nor suit
As a general rule of thumb, do not touch any article of clothing that has moving tentacles, whether it was given to you by a demon or not.
What I want to know is, that thing looks at least partly alive. What does it eat?
Sweat and other fluids…
Traditionally, tentacled creatures eat sea men.
Panel #4 Maxima has a Baron Unterbyte look about her.
The problem with superheroine stripper outfits is mainly that they afford the superheroine less protection than the mail heroes are allowed to have, for no reason other than a desire to objectify the person risking their life to save the world. Which seems damn unfair. If your power is from tantric energy engendered by people looking at you, and you’re nigh on indestructable, than sure. Got no problem with that heroine choosing to wear a g-string to an armor fight. But mostly that’s not the case – but STILL the fighting ladies get stuck with costumes that leave large parts of their skin exposed. Guys covered in Kelvar and magicly impervious leather and stuff – but the gals? Open to road rash city. It’s not fair and it exposes them to extra danger needlessly.
Re ugly fit guys. I’ll tell you a secret. When you’re a teen, maybe you’re into pretty boys for awhile. When you’re older, for many women, some other things are more attractive. All kinds of body types can appeal, but I’ll tell you, being fit and muscley – you could have a face like rock outcropping, and you’d still be sexy. Vin Diesel isn’t that much in the face department, but he’s got gorgeous shoulders and a deep voice to DIE for. Even when he’s carrying a bit of extra weight. I’d hop into bed on the strength of that voice alone…
Dang google dictate – I meant MALE heroes, obviously LOL
hot people changing clothes generates sexy aura? sound legit
I like the gloves. I’d keep the gloves; they look like they’d go with a lot of outfits.
i need that tentacle bra
That outfit on Max would be awesome at Dragon Con.